Education Summit 2021

The Bioinformatics Education summit gathers representatives from academia, research institutes, industry and other stakeholders who are involved in different aspects of capacity building in the disciplines of bioinformatics and computational biology. The LMICs session at the summit started on the 2021 event to start addressing topics of special interest to the communities within the Low-to-Middle-Income countries focusing on their specific challenges.

As a result the first meeting the LMICs community is in the process of emitting best practices guidelines and recommendations and is set to initiate living documents and resources that will be available to the training community in general. This year the LMICs community is extending its discussion to tackle concerns related to bioinformatics infrastructure to support education and training and also initiating conversations about broadening bioinformatics training to non-hot spot regions.

• Finalize discussion on the guidelines for bioinformatics training in LMICs

• Identifying key challenges to building core infrastructure for sustainable bioinformatics education in LMICs

  • 1. Virtuality and the COVID pandemic, LMICs challenges

• Target bioinformatics training in LMICs at non-hotspot regions (centralization problem) - how do we decentralize training?

  • 1. Incentivize networking within LMICs

• Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for bioinformatics training and education in LMICs